cycling a new reef aquarium

I upgraded my tank last weekend from. 105 litre to a 350 litre tank.. I used 20lbs of live sand arag alive special grade I put in about 3kg of rock from my old cycled tank and put in the siporax from my old tank that would have live bacteria on it. Water is 25 degrees, salinity is 1.026 ppm...

In this video the CADE reef tank build gets cycled with beneficial bacteria. How to cycle a reef tank in 1-2 weeks using Nitrocycle, Turbostart 900 and PNS Substrate Sauce. Live nitrifying bacteria Product links in the description of the video on YouTube: And 2 years later the tank is doing...

I recently started a 13.5 nano build. I'm using live sand and dry rock. I used microbacter start to help with cycling. Day 2 I noticed a white film building up on the glass. I cleaned it off and now day for it came back. Is this just good bacteria building up? Should I just leave it of continue...

I am new to the salt water tanks and I’ve had this tank cycling for 17 days. Out of nowhere this white strings showed up on the rocks. The lights have been turned off since day one and there is currently no animals inside. There is no live rocks in the tank, they are synthetic rocks. The sand...

Hello everyone ! I'm not sure if I really need help or if I'm worrying too much for nothing! I am currently in the process of cycling my Waterbox AIO 20 gallon aquarium. I put in the water on January 19, with Caribsea Ocean Direct living sand, and around ten pounds of Caribsea Liferock. On...

Hello reefers, I need some help in regards to cycling my 26 gallon nano aquarium. I started a fish-less cycle with bottled bacteria and ammonia chloride 40 days ago. Im also using caribsea live sand, life rocks, dry rocks and live rocks from lfs. In the past 7 days: Ammonia: 2 ppm - 0 ppm...

This is the 2nd time this has happened to me and it just doesn't make any sense. The tank was started with dry rock and old sand from an aquarium I tore down last year. Parameters: Temperature - 22.5-23°c Ph - 7.8 Ammonia - 0.5ppm Salinity - 1.025ppm No change in ammonia at all despite adding...

Started cycling my tank a week ago. Dry rock, live sand, doing dr Tim’s fishless cycle. Ammonia was at or near 0 before dosing ammonia and adding bacteria. Instructions said to do 4 drops per gallon, tank is 15G, I just went with 40 to be on the light side. When I measured ammonia the next day...

Setting up a new tank and was thinking of the skip cycle. Figured i would use dry rock and sand in the DT and get some actual live rock from a LFS(80% dry/20% live). Does it make sense to still dose nitrating bacteria? Microbacter7, Tims One And Only, or Fritzturbo start? Would it make sense to...

Hi everyone! So I’m a bit stuck in my cycling process. I had seawater delivered 12 days ago from Natural Seawater supplier. I used dry rock and live sand for my Fluval flex 123l. My lfs advised me to use Seachem stability to start my cycle. I have been ghost feeding with flakes each day but...

Started my cycling my tank on the 29th of June and started dosing Seachem prime & stablility this past Saturday and it got my ammonia to this I’d say between 0.50 - 0.25 ppm. Should I do a water change to hopefully bring it to 0 or should I continue to wait it out? Really wanted to get fish in...

Hello! New to the aquarium game . I have a few cycling questions maybe someone can help me. I’ve been cycling my Orbit (jellyfish tank) tank for about a month. I did the shrimp method, and my ammonia spiked to 4ppm. Everything seem on track. However, testing a few times I noticed my Nitrite...

Hi all, i am new to this hobby & started to cycle a new 20gallon nano tank with cured rock and live sand. Basically I just followed the aquarium owner’s instruction using microbacter7 and brightwell biofuel only. This is day 4 and the test kit is not picking up any ammonia or nitrate. Is these...

Question for you guys..I used Dr Tims One & Only and the Dr Tim’s Ammonia Chloride fishless method. The instructions were to add 4 drops of the ammonia chloride per gallon. I have a 20 gallon Waterbox. After doing so I’ve read reviews of insane ammonia spikes using the 4 drops per gallon...

i’ve been cycling my tank for about 5-7 weeks i just tested my nitrites about 3-4 days ago because they were high for a while but i also tested nitrates to see if i had any in the tank and there was a high level of nitrates as well. I Just tested again today after a few days now my nitrites are...

Hello all. I’ve setup a new marine aquarium with dead live rock and kept it for cycling for the last 20 days. I’ve been dosing it with Microbacter 7, microbacter xlm and lastly I dosed it with Dr Tim’s. Whenever I test the ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0.1 and nitrate is 25. I use Australian black...

I apologize for all the cycling questions and threads, I will just update this one from here on out and lay out the entire information below. As of today though (September 3) I've had 0 Ammonia for a few days and stuck at around 5.0 Nitrites for like a week and unsure what to do as it seems I...

Hello everyone! I’m currently going on my 3rd week of cycling my tank I just wanted to reach out and see if these are normal parameters for going on the 3rd week of cycling! Thanks for the help! Ammonia 4.0 ppm Nitrites 0.25 ppm

Hi All! I’m currently on day 9 of cycling my new tank with Dr Tims one and only and Dr Tims ammonia. At first my ammonia was reading 8ppm but as of yesterday is now reading 2ppm. I have done a water change on Sunday and added a bottle of api quick start to make sure I haven’t killed all the new...

Good evening everyone. I’m cycling a Fluval Evo 13.5. I started on 6/28. The tank is stocked with 1 large piece of live rock, and two large pieces of dry rock. I have a Kenya tree and some macro algae that was included with my live rock. I have 2 Red legged Hermits. I started building up...

I recently jumped back into the reef world and have started a 7 gallon nano reef tank. I bought Carib Sea Aragalive Pink Fiji sand, and 10 lbs of cured rock from my LFS. My parameters have been very steady, and I’ve only seen a slight rise in ammonia (no more than .5 ppm) and have seen somewhere...

So I may sound dumb but I have some questions about salt water tanks. I have several freshwater tanks that are doing really well and have been around for years. I have found a lot of conflicting information so I thought asking here would be good. Do I add stability (beneficial bacteria) to my...

My tank has been running two weeks now with live rock live sand. Yesterday I added three chromis abs was given two soft corals (sinularia & Xenia) I’ve read that during the cycle I should keep my lights turned off….but will these two corals die if I keep the light of for a month?

Hello So here is the problem I just got done setting up my 50 gallon reef aquarium and I did a really stupid mistake. I always cycle my tanks using the fishless cycle method in which I use a bottle of ATM bacteria along with ammonia in a bottle to feed the bacteria until they populate the...

Hello all, I finally set up my 180L (47.5 G) DT a few days before my clownfish finished their QT (30days of cuppramine and 1 week of Prazi. They didn't have anything but I did it just as a preventative measure) and once I put my water, dry rock, sand and filter running, I added a bottle of Fritz...